How Many Times Do You Go to The Shops Weekly?

Mikey85 on 02/06/2021 - 20:35
Last edited 02/06/2021 - 22:43

I'm researching for a side project of mine and keen to understand how many times people drive to the shops on an average week (excluding lock down rules etc). All shops, not just groceries. Could be for a major shop, or just to pick up milk & bread - total trips per week. Sorry not looking for trips where you walked to the shops, and only for trips to shops where you can pick things up (ie not the gym, doctors, etc). Can involve fast food.

For example, major shop on Saturday morning at Coles, drive to Kmart and do clothes shopping Saturday afternoon (different trip or location), pickup snacks Sunday afternoon back at Coles, Milk & Bread on Thursday at Coles, new shoes Friday night at Myer. This would be separate 5 trips in one week.

Please fill in Poll, thanks!

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  • 15
    <1 trip per week
  • 23
    1 Trip per week
  • 33
    2 Trips per week
  • 18
    3 Trips per week
  • 9
    4 Trips per week
  • 5
    5 Trips per week
  • 1
    6 Trips per week
  • 9
    7 or more Trips per week
Food & Grocery

Comments

  • th123 on 02/06/2021 - 21:13
    +1

    1/day
    general groceries - coles/woolies.

  • mapax on 02/06/2021 - 21:32
    +2

    Once every 2-3 weeks.

    • Mikey85 on 02/06/2021 - 21:37

      thanks - is this because you plan well, or live a distance from the shops?

      • mapax on 02/06/2021 - 21:58
        +8

        That’s how often I drive to the shops. I also walk to the shops once a week, but you said you only wanted to know how often people drive there.

        • Mikey85 on 02/06/2021 - 22:32

          awesome thanks, makes sense!

  • Marcsie on 02/06/2021 - 21:48
    -1

    lol

  • Austin 316 on 02/06/2021 - 22:05

    Good move by the Government to catch those doing more trips

  • mskeggs on 02/06/2021 - 22:17
    +1

    I can walk to the shops from home or work, but will drive if I am doing a big shop.
    Not sure why you exclude walking. Does public transport count?
    Bike? Lots of people don’t drive.

    • Mikey85 on 02/06/2021 - 22:31

      thanks for the comment - my project is looking at environmental factors as well, and if you are walking, riding or catching public transport, i feel this is a positive already so not my target area

      • SF3 on 03/06/2021 - 00:05

        How Many Times Do You Go to The Shops Weekly?
        so not my target area
        walking, riding or catching public transport

        Sounds like you are cherry picking your data to achieve your "target".

        • Mikey85 on 03/06/2021 - 08:17

          Thanks for your concern but this is not a hard quant survey, these are thoughtstarters, and not for uni or anything. I can appreciate and allow for any failings of formalised structure or question structure. Thanks

        • brendanm on 03/06/2021 - 17:06
          -1

          Like every other "study" really. The result has been predetermined, they just need to find the appropriate way to collect data to make it work.

          • SF3 on 03/06/2021 - 22:30
            -1

            @brendanm: indeed, seek confirmation bias and anecdotal evidence to support a predetermined stance.

            I've seen therefore, it must be.

          • Mikey85 on 21/06/2021 - 12:45

            @brendanm: given you have no idea what why or how I'm doing this, this is wildly inaccurate

  • bobbified on 02/06/2021 - 22:53
    +4

    I take my vote back. I never 'drive' to the shops. Its literally downstairs so I walk 5+ times/week.

  • markb28 on 02/06/2021 - 23:09
    +2

    About 3/4 times, they built a new Coles a year ago about 150m from my house. No need to do a large shop anymore. Before that it was once a week driving to Woolworths.

    • Mechz on 02/06/2021 - 23:48
      +1

      Do you find yourself spending more because it's convenient?

      • Mikey85 on 03/06/2021 - 08:18

        Good call, on average people spend more than they plan to, so more trips would likely equal higher than planned spend.

      • markb28 on 03/06/2021 - 12:28
        +1

        Not really, one thing about going often is that you buy what you need when it is fresh. This way you don't overbuy stuff that then doesn't get eaten and chucked away.

  • morse on 03/06/2021 - 01:59
    +1

    Way too much, maybe 3x/week- we don’t plan well enough and will run out of something or decide we want to eat something specific for lunch or dinner.

    This used to be a non-issue as we’d combine stopping into the shops with walking our dog, or pre-dog and baby just having an evening walk. It’s becoming less convenient now for a variety of reasons but unfortunately our habits haven’t quite caught up. It’s also tricky since our toddler will randomly go through specific phases like bananas or apples which can change at short notice and we’ll run out of that thing, but prefer to restock than face a tantrum.

    Even if we changed our habits I can’t imagine going less than once a week as we like certain things fresh like bread, fish, prefer eating bananas before they are over ripe etc. there’s also certain things we prefer to get from different places. We haven’t yet dabbled with getting stuff delivered, but it might be an option in the future to reduce trips.

    EDIT - your data is going to be skewed if you don’t put it in the context of how people live eg walking our combining with other activities. Actually your data will be pretty horrible using OzB forums for market research regardless.

    • Mikey85 on 03/06/2021 - 08:20

      More trips = fresher food is a good insight, thanks! Like that would be a good trade off to potential inconvenience of multiple trips

    • GG57 on 03/06/2021 - 16:05

      Walking to the shops was to be excluded

  • capslock janitor on 20/06/2021 - 14:33
    +1

    2-3 times a week. We do a separate "Western" run (think Colesworth) then "Ethnic/markets/grocer" run, and the odd items we want.

  • CheeseBeans on 21/06/2021 - 12:29
    +1

    3-4 times- generally one large shop which takes care of 80% of it, then the others come from walking to woolies after the gym- it's a good 5-10 minute walk to easily bump my steps up. I'll go grab some fresh stuff that doesn't keep as well (leaf salad mix or similar), fruit/vegetables, or a little greek yoghurt as a treat. Then occasionally a stop somewhere else like petbarn or something to get treats/food for the dog.

    Just saw you said only driving. 1-2 times a week then. Once for the main shop, and the second time because I've forgotten something/need to buy clothes/have to get something for the dog.

  • AlienC on 27/06/2021 - 02:36

    I sometimes do big online shops every few months but weekly I only usually go if I am feeling hungry or thirsty that day.. like after my first shift in my lunch break I will go into Coles or Woolies and grab a drink usually and sometimes a snack.. like the kinder stuff or maybe some chips

    I am in the shops usually minimum once a week and sometimes up to four times a week maybe five if I am hungry every weekday/workday.

    Weekends I don't usually leave the house but might go to the shops if I want something cheap rather than getting something from the local chip shop or menulog/domino's.

    Yeah my life is boring sue me.

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